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Title: | Constructing Passages of Time in Old Age: Regular Karaoke as a Senior Lifestyle Practice in Urban Japan | Authors: | TONG KOON FUNG | Issue Date: | 1-Jul-2021 | Publisher: | University of Illinois Press | Citation: | TONG KOON FUNG (2021-07-01). Constructing Passages of Time in Old Age: Regular Karaoke as a Senior Lifestyle Practice in Urban Japan. Ethnomusicology. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | In this paper, I explore temporal aspects of musical experiences at two kinds of open-microphone karaoke establishments in urban Japan popular among seniors above the age of 60: karaoke kissas (a cafe-bar hybrid) and karaoke classes. Drawing upon ethnographic data from intensive fieldwork conducted from 2016 to 2018 at two such establishments in Osaka, I argue that the karaoke regulars constructed chronotopes (Bakhtin 1981) that dialogically wove together temporalities and spatialities of their own life histories, the nostalgia of the songs they sang, and the socio-historical contexts in which the songs were produced and consumed. | Source Title: | Ethnomusicology | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/171851 | ISSN: | 0014-1836 |
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